Colorado’s super-minority House Republicans are set to launch a largely symbolic impeachment attempt against Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
Colorado’s super-minority House Republicans are set to launch a largely symbolic impeachment attempt against Secretary of State Jena Griswold in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot.
“Since being elected, the Secretary of State has used her position as a platform for her partisan political ideology and has proven herself unfit for this elected position,” wrote Rep. Ryan Armagost, a Berthoud Republican who authored the letter. It was signed by all but two members of the House Republican caucus.
Griswold was a defendant in the initial lawsuit, given her role in elections. While voicing criticism of Trump, she maintained a neutral position as the case worked its way through state courts. In December, the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruled 4-3 that Trump should be removed from the Republican presidential primary ballot based on his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.Two years ago, Colorado House Republicans voted to thank the Jan.
While the court ruling triggered the impeachment, Republicans’ desire to impeach Griswold also stems from the secretary’s previous statements criticizing Trump and Republicans. Armagost said Thursday that “the language that the secretary of state uses on her social media and otherwise publicly, in press releases and everything, that is just biased” undercuts broader public trust in Colorado elections.
That effort also faces long odds: It would require more than 600,000 signatures and millions of dollars to organize. Griswold won reelection in 2022 with a 13-percentage-point margin over her Republican challenger. The letter was leaked to Colorado Politics, which first detailed the impeachment effort Thursday morning.
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